A new report from Boston Consulting Group puts London, Dubai, New York City, Washington DC, and Amsterdam at the top of the global rankings for the world's most intelligent cities.
What makes this worth paying attention to from an African perspective is that several Nigerian cities appear in the same report as notable AI adopters, even as they continue to contend with real infrastructure gaps. The conversation around AI on the continent is no longer theoretical.
The report signals something many people already feel on the ground: African urban centres are finding ways to engage with emerging technology even when the foundations, power, connectivity, broadband access, are still being built. That gap between adoption and infrastructure is the tension shaping tech culture across the continent right now.
How Nigerian cities specifically ranked, and what that means for policy, investment, and everyday life, is the detail this story is still waiting to fill in.
Originally published by AllAfrica.